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From: PETER WEBB <>
Subject: Re: [MON] Job description?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:23:23 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <fe90ce66510e1.510e1fe90ce66@tampabay.rr.com>


Good morning Kathy N,

Thank you for your excellent explanation - it solves a
puzzle.. My ancestor described as a "Stock Taker " on
his sons Mariage certificate in 1856 was decribed in
the 1861 Census of Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean - as
a"Foreman in Iron Foundry".
Many thanks,

Peter.
--- wrote:

> Stock takers/stock-takers/stocktakers worked in the
> iron and tin works.
> Here's one description I was able to pull from
> books.google.com -
>
> "... a stocktaker, who superintended the making up
> of the
> pig beds and the disposal of the pig iron and
> slag.."
>
> The above description is from "The British Iron &
> Steel Industry: A
> Technical History," by Walter Keith Vernon Gale.
>
> In the U.S. in the 1830s for example, a "stocktaker"
> in an iron foundry
> was responsible for keeping the forges supplied with
> iron and charcoal.
>
> Kathy Judge Nemaric
>
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